You may have heard an A above high C the last time you accidentally stepped on your cat's tail, but it takes a combination of rigorous training, genetic luck, and sheer grit for a human to produce this note on cue.

According to all known records, the coloratura soprano, Audrey Luna, is the first such being in the Metropolitan Opera’s 137-year history to do so on its stage, an achievement that has all the opera dogs barking. Hear it in the NPR clip below.

Others are bedazzled by Luna’s history-making pipes. She makes her entrance on that high A, and hits it again shortly thereafter, as Leticia, a diva who rolls up to a dinner party following a performance of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. (The title role of that one—a part Luna has played, natch—is another that demands stratospheric notes of its performers, setting records at opera houses around the world.)

See below for more of Luna’s dizzying highs, including her somewhat NSFW performance as Olympia, the mechanical doll in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann

If you're mad enough to try it yourself, please let us know how high you get in the comments below.

Historic high note? Seriously, at first I thought it was a joke. As I listened, it sounded awful. How could that count as singing a record breaking note? Miss Luna is a great singer, but “the note” that hit the news is simply ridiculous and I can’t comprehend why it is noteworthy. A poor example for potential opera fans; that article could’ve been their first encounter with opera. I guess the writers couldn’t find anything else to “rage” about.

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